Clinical Exercise Science

Do you want to advance your sport and exercise science expertise and use it to improve people's health and wellbeing? This MSc will prepare you for roles in clinical settings.

- This course covers three key areas: rehabilitation and training, physical activity and health, and clinical exercise physiology. It will prepare you for a variety of careers within clinical exercise science, including roles in clinical rehabilitation, clinical exercise physiology, health, and wellbeing

- You’ll gain valuable experience in clinical settings and develop your applied skills through a placement

- You'll explore clinically based research and conduct your own research project in an area that interests you

- Our academics are leading experts in clinical exercise science, and there is a thriving community of postgraduate sport and exercise science students here

- If you don't want to take the full masters, you can choose to gain a Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma instead

The role of the clinical exercise scientist is relatively new but increasingly important nationally and internationally. These specialists draw on the skills, knowledge, and underlying principles of sport and exercise science, in order to improve people’s health and wellbeing. Clinical exercise scientists are often involved in helping people manage long-term health conditions or recover from serious illness.

This masters enables you to make the most of these new job opportunities, by developing your current understanding of human function and behaviour so you can improve people's health outcomes and quality of life. We focus on giving you real-world learning opportunities that develop your intellectual, analytical, and critical skillsets.